Map

Title:

Osaka / Tokyo

Object Name:

Map

Object ID:

2015.023.44

Creator:

Kaumagraph Company

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1944

Description:

Map of southern half of Japan. Lithograph, printed on white rayon. One side shows Shikoku and southern part of Honshu. Other side shows Tokyo area. Topographic map printed in color for U.S. Army Air Forces by U.S. Army Map Service, 1943 edition, printed in 1944. Scale is 1:1,000,000. Belonged to Hibbert V. Miles (1915-2001) of Amherst, NH.

Side 1: Titled "OSAKA". Legend at bottom left, and "A.M.S. 5301 / First Edition 1942. / Second Edition 1943. / Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, / U.S. Army, by the Army Map Service (PT), U.S. Army, / Washington, D.C., 1943. / Redrawn from a Japanese Imperial Land Survey map dated 1937. / Communications revised to 1943 from intelligence reports." Lower right: "ARMY MAP SERVICE U.S. ARMY WASHINGTON D.C. 100141 / 3/44 KG 1944". (KG = Kaumagraph Company)

Side 2: Titled "TOKYO". Legend and text same as above.

Material:

Textile
Rayon

Dimensions:

H-24.5 W-26 inches

Provenance:

Belonged to Master Sergeant Hibbert Vaughn Miles (1915-2001) of Amherst, NH. He was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1942. He was an Administrative Specialist serving at several air bases in the U.S., then, in 1944, in the China-Burma-India theater and in the Marianas Islands. He received an honorable discharge in 1945. He operated a service station in Milford, NH, before and after the war.

This map is one in a series of "escape maps" produced for use by downed air crews during World War II.

Credit Line:

Gift of the family of Hibbert Vaughn Miles

People:

Miles, Hibbert V. (1915-2001)

Subjects:

World War II, Air forces, Japan, Maps